[open-government] Call for case studies: community groups and individuals using open data

Fri May 31 09:01:42 UTC 2013

Hi Sarah,

Maybe this could have relevance: I've spoke to Paul Lenz from mySociety in
the UK this week, and he explained how they are running a project that
let's citizens engage with open data in various ways. I understand that
it's been quite succesful, and that they are looking to expand into other
countries.

More info:
http://www.mysociety.org/

-Christian

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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Zander Furnas <
zfurnas at sunlightfoundation.com> wrote:

> Hi Sarah & others,
> I posted a quick response to your post, but wanted to pass it around here
> too:
>
> It’s great to see that Involve will be doing some case study work around
> these important questions. I think there is a real desire for this kind of
> impact evaluation and data use research the Open Gov/ Open Data/
> Transparency community right now. I’m a researcher at the Sunlight
> Foundation, working on a case study project of our own that we recently
> began in January:http://sunlightfoundation.com/casestudies/.
>
> We are specifically focusing on technology enabled transparency policies,
> looking at disclosures and platforms made available by governments in a
> variety of issue areas (things like procurement, political spending, asset
> disclosure etc.). You can read more about the thinking behind our research
> here<http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2013/02/12/whytransparencymatters/>.
> Would you be interested in scheduling some time to chat about our
> respective research, and how we can learn from and benefit from each
> other’s thinking?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander Furnas
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Sarah Borwick <sarah at involve.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:29 AM
> Subject: [open-government] Call for case studies: community groups and
> individuals using open data
> To: open-government at lists.okfn.org
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Jonathan Gray has very kindly let me temporarily hijack this list to ask
> you all for your thoughts and advice on a research project Involve (
> www.involve.org.uk) are conducting on open data, participation and
> democracy. Here is a brief summary of what we are doing:
>
> A reasonable body of research has been produced into open data and its
> impact on transparency and accountability, however, relatively little is
> known about whether publishing government data has empowered, or is
> empowering citizens, to hold public bodies to account and improve public
> services, as intended by government. We are interested then, when it is the
> case that people are using and producing data, in whether the government is
> then engaging with those citizens and taking their ideas on board. Put
> simply, we want to understand more from both sides about the level of
> engagement going on with open data.
>
> I have blogged about this on our website, if you would like more
> information:
>
> (
> http://www.involve.org.uk/open-data-participation-and-democracy-a-call-for-case-studies/
> )
>
> What I want to ask you all then, is whether you, or individuals and
> community groups you know of, are using open data to hold public bodies to
> account. If you do know of any examples, no matter how minor/tenuous, I
> would very much appreciate your thoughts.
>
> My email address is sarah at involve.org.uk, and my direct line is 0207 336
> 9443.
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance and I look forward to hopefully
> hearing from some of you.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Sarah
>
>
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>
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>
> **
> Check out our new publication: 'From Fairy Tale to Reality - Dispelling
> the
> Myths around Citizen Engagement' <
> http://www.involve.org.uk/from-fairy-tale-to-reality/>
>
> www.participationcompass.org  <http://www.participationcompass.org>
>
>
> --
> Alexander Furnas
> Research Fellow | Sunlight Foundation <http://sunlightfoundation.com>
> @AlexanderFurnas
>
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